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Chester Douglass, chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), submitted written testimony to the National Research Council last year claiming that there was no significant link between fluoride and osteosarcoma, a rare but deadly form of bone cancer...
...parts of the preliminary report show Douglass reported finding no significant connection between fluoride and osteosarcoma, a rare but deadly form of bone cancer that strikes early in life...
...analysis carried out...reported an Odds Ratio of 1.2 to 1.4 between fluoride and Osteosarcoma that was not significantly different from 1,” Douglass’ report stated...
...portions of Bassin’s thesis have been posted to the internet. In it, Bassin wrote that “among males, exposure to fluoride...was associated with an increased risk of developing osteosarcoma. The association was most apparent between ages 5-10 with a peak at six to eight years...
Douglass’ report to the NIEHS, which is undated, did not discuss any evidence in favor of a link between fluoride and osteosarcoma. But it included a citation to Bassin’s 2001 dissertation in a section titled “Publications,” which was appended to the report in a way that made the citations appear to corroborate, not question, Douglass’ research...